What is the Bible code?  Many, many people have asked this question and there is still a lot of controversy surrounding it.  In short, the Bible code, also known as the Torah Code, are words, phrases and clusters of words and phrases that some people believe have meaning and are intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible.

These codes, which were made famous by the book The Bible Code, are said to be able to predict the future once they are decoded but many skeptics and religious groups strongly deny this. The Bible code can be viewed as part of the Jewish culture which has a long tradition of interpretation, annotation and commentary regarding the Bible and this includes the concepts of exegesis (a critical explanation or interpretation of a text) and exegesis (the process of misinterpreting a text so that someone can add their own ideas into it).

There is also a way of looking for hidden prophecies and passages in the Bible that is know as the “Bible Code”, a software program that searches for these messages.  In very simple language this means that the spaces between words are eliminated and the  Old Testament becomes a block of continuous Hebrew letters. Then letters are skipped at a programmed interval while the program searches for words and there appear  to be patterns to the passages where these words are found.

One specific encryption method of the Bible code is WRR (Witztum, Rips, Resenberg) which was discovered by Dr. Eliyahu Rips, a world leading expert in group theory, which is a field of mathematics that underlies quantum physics.  This method has become known as the “Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS) in the Book of Genesis”. This next sentence is a simplified example of how the code works when every fourth letter is used and all spaces removed:

‘Rips ExplAineD thaT eacH codE is a Case Of adDing Every fourth or twelfth or fiftieth letter to form a word.’  The hidden message is READ THE CODE.

Journalist Michael Drosnin met with mathematician Eliyahu Rips and his associate Alexander Rotenber in Israel in 1992, which inspired Michael Drosnin to begin researching the Bible Code. It materialized in becoming an author of many books, especially his most famous book, the Bible Code, which have been criticized by some who acknowledge the Bible Code is exists, however the critics suggest that it cannot predict the future.

There are now two different schools of thought on the Bible code – the traditional (WRR) or ELs view which is based only on how it applies to the Torah and insists that any attempt to study the codes outside this context is invalid; this comes from the belief that the Torah is unique among biblical texts because it was given to mankind by Moses in exact letter-by-letter sequence and in the original Hebrew language – read more articles or visit our resources.